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Women’s tennis
hosts dual matches
The Texas A&M women’s tennis
team will host Southwest Conference
dual matches against Texas Christian
and Texas Tech on Thursday and
Friday.
Weather permitting, the Lady
Aggies will face TCU in a noon match
the Omar Smith Tennis Center, but if
it is raining, the match will be moved
to the Champions Tennis Club in
Houston and start at 2 p.m. The
Texas Tech match is scheduled for
1:30 p.m. on Friday and could also be
moved because of weather.
UTSA doubleheader
cancelled due to rain
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The Texas A&M softball
doubleheader vs. Texas-San Antonio
scheduled for yesterday was canceled
because of inclement weather.
The Lady Aggies will resume play
Wednesday, April 5, in a
doubleheader vs. Southwest Texas
State at the Lady Aggie Softball
Complex.
Georgia hires Tulsa
basketball coach
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tubby
Smith, who led Tulsa to the NCAA
tournament’s final 16 the past two
years, resigned today and was
expected to become coach at
Georgia.
“Much of the credit for the rise of
TU’s basketball program to its present
level is directly attributable to the
efforts and hard work of Tubby Smith
and his coaching staff,” Tulsa
president Robert Donaldson said.
Georgia scheduled an afternoon
news conference in Athens to
address the Bulldogs’ coaching
vacancy. Georgia athletic director
Vince Dooley was looking to replace
Hugh Durham, who was fired March
19 after 17 years.
The 43-year-old Smith took over a
Tulsa team that had lost favor in the
community since Nolan Richardson
left in 1985 for Arkansas. In four
years, he restored excitement with an
uptempo style.
Tight end Jackson
traded to Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Keith
Jackson, the five-time Pro Bowler,
has been traded by the Miami
Dolphins to the Green Bay Packers
for an undisclosed draft choice.
Jackson, 29, has caught 388
passes for 4,636 yards and 38
touchdowns in his nine-year career.
He was deemed expendable by the
Dolphins after they signed free agent
tight end Eric Green.
He is also coming off a down year.
He had 59 receptions for 673 yards
and seven touchdown but also was
criticized by coach Don Shula and
teammates for a number of drops.
Jackson was a first-round draft
choice of the Philadelphia Eagles in
1988, spending four years with that
team before moving to the Dolphins
for the last three seasons.
Jackson is the second Miami
player acquired by Green Bay
recently. Wide receiver Mark Ingram
was obtained March 21 in exchange
for a fourth-round selection in next
month’s college draft.
Ramp Romp right
around the corner
Texas A&M’s Department of
Recreational Sports is sponsoring the
fifth annual Kyle Field Ramp Romp on
Saturday, April 1 at 9 a.m.
The event includes a 5K course
that will begin at Kyle Field, wind its
way through the Texas A&M campus,
and return to the stadium. Runners
will tackle two miles on the flat course
and 1.1 miles on the ramps.
The fastest male and female
contest participants will receive a
$200 travel voucher from Continental
Airlines.
For more information, call Drew
McMillen at 845-1887.
A&M happens to
be her ‘Truelove’
□ Take-charge attitude
provides challege to
Lady Ag first baseman.
By Robert Rodriguez
The Battalion
Some say true love is hard to
find these days. Luckily for the
Texas A&M softball team, they
found its Truelove at first base.
Sophomore Mya Truelove has
been a starter for two years and
said she has to assume a role as
one of the leaders on the team.
“One of my personal goals
this year is to be more of a
team leader,” Truelove said.
“That’s something that we lack
on our team, someone who
steps up and takes charge. I
would like to step up and try to
help everybody out.”
Truelove flirted with the
.300 mark in batting average
last year and led the team in
doubles. She also tied for the
team lead in home runs and
was the first Lady Aggie to hit
a home run at the Lady Aggie
softball complex.
“This year’s team has so
much more talent on it across
the board than we did last
year,” Truelove said. “It’s just
taking this year’s team a lot
longer to pull things together
than last year’s.”
A graduate from Deer Park
High School, Truelove was a
three-time first team All-district
selection. She was named the
district’s most valuable player
in her junior year and was
named on the first team All-
greater Houston squad in her
senior year.
Truelove was recruited by
many schools and narrowed her
choice to A&M, Oklahoma, and
Southwestern Louisiana. Even
though she enjoyed visiting Ok
lahoma, Truelove said A&M
was for her.
“When I came here, I just
loved it,” Truelove said. “We
went to a football game and it
was great. A&M is a place where
once you visit, if you are the
kind of person that fits into that
kind of life, that’s where you
want it to go.”
Truelove began playing soft-
ball at the age of seven. Even
though she tried other sports,
she said softball was always
her favorite.
“When I was
young, it was always
just softball,” Tru
elove said. “That’s
all I ever played. Not
until junior high did
I play volleyball, and
if I didn’t play soft-
ball in college, I
would definitely be
playing volleyball.”
Many influences helped Tru
elove get interested in softball
when she was younger.
“When I was seven, softball
was the thing to do,” Truelove
said. “My dad played softball
and he was really good and I
used to watch him. My mom was
my soul supporter and probably
never missed a game in my life.”
One of Truelove’s goals is to
help the team finish strong the
rest of the season.
“We really have not started
off on the right step this year,”
Truelove said. “I just hope that
our team pulls together the rest
of the season and win every ball-
game from here on out.”
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"My dad played softball and he
was really good and I used to
watch him."
— Maya Truelove
Lady Aggie first baseman
Stew Milne/Tm Bah alion
First baseman Maya Truelove (right) discusses strategies with
Lady Aggie pitcher Christy Bunting.
Lakers prove to be no match for Spurs
□ David Robinson
pours in 30 points as
San Antonio racks up
ninth victory in a row.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
David Robinson scored 30 points
and grabbed 16 rebounds
Wednesday night to lead the
streaking San Antonio Spurs to
their ninth straight victory, 107-
84 over the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Spurs’ triumph set their
season-best winning streak after
three previous eight-game
streaks. San Antonio has won 28
of its last 32 games and is 43-9
since Dec. 10.
J.R. Reid added 14 points
and 13 rebounds for San Anto
nio, while Sean Elliott had 13
points, Chuck Person 11 and
Jack Haley 10.
Cedric Ceballos scored 17
points and Anthony Peeler
added 15 for the Lakers, who
saw their season-best five-game
winning streak snapped.
San Antonio put the game
away with an 11-1 run midway
through the third quarter. Reid’s
layup extended San Antonio’s
lead to 67-47, its largest margin
until the fourth quarter.
Los Angeles led until Vinny
Del Negro’s 3-point basket gave
San Antonio the lead for good
with 1:31 left in the opening
period.
Vlade Divac’s alley-oop slam
at the buzzer pulled the Lakers
within 45-40 at intermission. Th
basket culminated a run of eight
straight Los Angeles points to
close the first half.
Wednesday’s victory marked
the seventh time the Spurs have
won 50 games since joining the
NBA in 1977. San Antonio’s
record of 50-18 is the franchise’s
best in history at this point of
the season and is the best in the
Western Division.
San Antonio has won its last
six games with starting power
forward Dennis Rodman on the
bench. The NBA’s leading re
bounder suffered a third-degree
separation of the acromioclavic
ular joint of his right shoulder
March 19 while riding his mo
torcycle.
Dallas off
life support
with eyes on
playoff hunt
DALLAS (AP) — The once-
woeful Dallas Mavericks have
hit the 30-victory mark and are
bearing down on the Denver
Nuggets and Sacramento Kings
for the eighth playoff spot in the
NBA Western Conference.
“If your heart is beating and
your blood is pumping, you’ve
got to take a look at the stand
ings now,” said Dallas coach
Dick Motta.
The Mavericks are two games
behind Denver and three behind
Sacramento with a hard road
trip on the horizon. They play at
Charlotte, New York and Boston
in the next three games.
“We’ll know more about our
playoff chances after we come off
the next road trip,” Motta said.
“If we are going to make the play
offs we have to win at least one
and possibly two of the games.”
There are 15 games left on
the Dallas schedule.
Dallas won only 24 games in
the last two seasons. But Motta,
who abruptly resigned as coach
in 1987, has turned things
around in his first season back
with the team.
“We’re having a lot of fun
now,” said Jamal Mashburn.
“We’ve won 30 games and we
only won 13 all of last year. It’s a
great feeling. There’s not much
you can say about last year. We
have some coaching now.”
Quinn Buckner was fired af
ter the Mavs disastrous season
in which Mashburn chaffed un
der what he considered a dicta
torial rule.
“Coach Motta brings us sta
bility, structure, and experi
ence,” Mashburn said. “He
brought fun back to basketball.”
Mashburn said there has
been some “ridiculous talk” that
the Mavs shouldn’t get into the
playoffs because they’d miss a
lottery pick.
“That doesn’t make any
sense,” Mashburn said. “We’ve
got to win this for ourselves.
This is what we’ve worked so
hard for.”
Dallas, which hadn’t won five
straight games since 1990, has
won eight of its last nine games,
including a 114-93 whipping of
the Milwaukee Bucks on Tues
day night. The Mavs are 10-6
since star forward Jim Jackson,
their highest scorer, suffered an
ankle injury.
Jackson could be back with
in a week.
“If we can hang in there until
Jim gets back there is no telling
what we can do,” Mashburn said.
“We play better on the road
than we do at home,” said Dal
las guard Jason Kidd.
Aikman offers own ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’
T roy Aikman is known for throwing
long touchdown passes to Michael
Irvin and handing off to Emmitt
Smith.But one thing he is not known for
is writing books for children.
While most of the sports world may be
overwhelmed with the autobiographies
of Nolan Ryan, Jimmy Johnson and Em
mitt Smith, they will read a different
kind of story from Aikman. “Things
Change” is about the lessons of early
childhood and success in life.
Although football plays a small part in
the book, it’s the lessons in life he learned
from change that dominate the pages.
While Charles Barkley and other
professional players have shied away
from the title of role model, Aikman has
said that parents should share that role
along with athletes.
That’s exactly what
he suggests in his book
about change that draws
from his experiences on
the field and off. Lessons
to be used not just in the
competitive arena, but
in life are the focus of
the book.
Aikman writes about how to keep go
ing when you’re hurt, focusing on goals,
finishing what you start, attitude and
doing extra work to get better. He also
mentions forgetting the problems of the
past and wiping them off “like dust on a
cowboy boot.”
Aikman cites a time from his early
childhood when he was playing teeball
and the coach put a boy in
the game that Aikman did
n’t think was very good.
He ended up voicing his
opinion rather loudly on
the field.
He goes on to explain
that his mother just about
ended his career with some
well deserved discipline af
ter the game.
Aikman’s childhood is the framework
on which his book is based and one to
which we can all relate. Not all of us may
possess two Superbowl rings and be at the
peak of professional football, but we can
relate to the experiences of change.
Hey, maybe this book isn’t just for
kids. The Houston Rocket’s Vernon
Maxwell could learn about attitude.
Where was his mind, when he proceeded
off the court and into the stands to “dis
cipline” a fan for his heckling remarks.
This book could also be a good for
“I’m no role model” Barkley who tried
to spit on a fan for his snide remarks
and instead hit a little girl a couple of
seasons ago.
Perhaps even Scottie Pippen could
learn how to refrain from throwing
tantrums when things go wrong on the
court. No more throwing chairs, Scottie.
Hey, even whole organizations like
Major League Baseball could learn how
to share, monetarily and otherwise.
Yes, there are definitely a lot of individ
uals, children and adults alike, who could
learn from the lessons of “Things Change.”
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